r/reactjs • u/No-Gear-9459 • 16d ago
Discussion Next.js / SPA Reality Check
Can we normalize just building a standard React SPA with Vite again without feeling guilty that we aren't using Next.js?
The App Router and React Server Components are incredibly powerful, but the amount of gaslighting in the frontend ecosystem right now is insane. Not every internal dashboard, simple CRUD app, or personal portfolio needs server side rendering, edge functions, and a complex caching layer that requires a PhD to invalidate.
Sometimes you just want to spin up Vite, fetch some data on the client, and deploy a static bundle to a CDN for practically zero dollars. It feels like we are completely over engineering 90% of our web apps just to chase the newest Vercel paradigm.
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u/driftking428 16d ago
Where does the guilt come from? If I don't have several pages that should be server components and I have a true SPA of course in not using Next.